Back to Basics

Been feeling an emotion overload lately.. I'm pretty attuned now to knowing when my body and mind needs a time out, so applied for urgent leave today, turned off my hp for a day, and just had self-time for myself..

This is (one of the things) what i did on my off-day:













Pics are a combination from my hp cam and Canon. Both sux.. super blur.. I NEED A NEW DIGICAM!!! Sponsors welcome! *beams*

Been neglecting my collection.. hope i can spend more time on it again.. starting on another set.. and need to stock up on display cases from Daiso...

::Good Food with family and friends::

My "time-out" weekend started with a home-made American-style breakfast compliments of my cousin. Though she complained it's not nicely arranged and the pic looks blah, who cares? It's filled with unspoken caring and i relished every bite.


Had dinner @ Prego's with my gals, flo and grace thereafter. Just a nice day out chilling, bringing out embarrassing secrets about each other, alot laughing and finally ended with drinks @ Harry's. Love my gals.. so can be myself with them, and they ask no more of me...

Gracie dear.. u know i'll support whatever decision u decided to make eventually.. Love u.

Fab crusty bread..




The best tiramisu i tasted to date.

The food at Prego's is good. Highly-recommended. Someplace i'll bring my family to soon...

Choc Amer @ half-price this month at Bakerzinn..

.. So good we bought a whole cake for mum's bday.

Contented bday gal (cos she had such filial daughters who spent her whole bday with her =)) and sleepy dog (no cake for him! ha!)


High Tea @ Equinox a while back with mum and sisters..




I dun recommend it unless you are into English Breakfast-style high tea, which i'm not really. I find the food so-so only and dun really live up to the hype.

Work tmr.. *groans* Would love a longer break but it has to be enough for now.

Haiz...

Case of severe cramps again and a very very bloated tummy...

due to the "monthly visit" again... but so xin ku this time.. like pregnant.. not that i know how it is like.. but with my stomach problems, i dun think i ever will in case i die in the labour room in an awful bloody mess (urgh... let's not visualise further).

Anyway i have been...

lately.. health not v good these days... i think i oredi took 5 days of MC this quarter... not v good right... sigh.

I shall resolve to go to my cousin's TCM doc this week and be better soon.

On the other hand, i wanna say, when i went out with healing balm on Mayday to cele her bday, i bought pretty knickers!! it's in the most gorgeous colour ever! makes u feel happy and instantly pretty when u wear it! Sis' recommendation. Now i know what my girlfriends mean when they say how nice and pretty underwear are important! Instant mood-uplifter manz! hehe..

And i'm hooked onto chick lit nowadays... am re-reading Can You Keep A Secret by the Queen of Chick-Lit Writers (in my opinion), Sophie Kinsella. I can't find my copy at home (can't rem who i lent it to and never return) so i went to buy another cos i'm so dying to read another of her books after reading and re-reading Confessions of a Shopaholic. I have to say the novel is soooo much better than the movie, really disappointed by the movie - it really shreds the novel to pieces. i re-read it again after the movie, just to get over the disappointment of the movie. And i wanted to get the next instalment, Shopaholic Takes Manhattan, but the major bookstores just don't carry it! The assistant from the bookstore i bought Can You Keep a Secret? insists Shopaholic Abroad and Shopaholic Takes Manhattan are one and the same, just that they are different versions (1 Brit 1 Amer), which one i can't rem. BUT they are NOT. Take it from me. I read my Confessions of a Shopaholic from front to back to front till it's tattered, and i know it's different from the other version (The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic). Even the name sounds so-not-catchy. I compared the 2 novels, and i know it's different. Maybe it's only a few words and the way they phrase and placed certain parts of the novels, but they are essentially different. The bookshop assistant was giving me that i-know-it-better-than-you face but i just ignored her. So What? I am anal like that. i'm paying and i'm getting the version i like.

So in the end, i bought Can You Keep a Secret? and Shopaholic and Sister (cos they sold the version i wanted). I shall patiently hunt down the rest of the Shopaholic series.

.. And i'm already halfway through my Can You Keep A Secret? and i'm loving Emma Corrigan, even more than Becky Bloomwood. She's soooo your-girl-next-door. Really. Bye. Going off to read now.

I can't seem to find free websites to download themes and free games for my e66. Any kind souls who can send me webbies? I only want Puzzle Bobble, and Little Twin Star and PiyoPiyo themes and wallpapers!! hehe.. old school i know, but i like.